Built 1996. Project Description: At the S.W. Jefferson transit stop the artist, Norie Sato, created pavement and etching designs which express the spirit of an urban neighborhood under pressure to change. Nearby two half circles, composed of basalt boulders overlap to form the bulk of the newly redesigned Collins Circle created by Robert Murase. Located just west of downtown in the center of Goose Hollow/SW Jefferson transit stop, a 308 acre neighborhood undergoing revitalization, Collins Circle lies at the terminus of a three-mile long tunnel buried beneath Washington Park (part of Portland's new light rail system). Monolithic basalt boulders stud the surface of the circle, placed by the artist to represent the abstract forms of nature, while recalling the monumentality of Neolithic structures like Stonehenge. Project History: Redesigned in '95-'96 to be a bold and beautiful piece of public art, while discouraging use by skateboarders and vagrants. Project Location: Goose Hollow/SW Jefferson, Portland, OR. Media: Basalt, stone. Size: 100' Diameter